1950s. Hot day on Tower Beach

Copyright: Henry Grant Collection/Museum of London

Sunday sunset with dome, evening with star.

Impossible before J. Nouvel's One New Change

    

OMA Progress at Barbican until 19 February 2012

OMA/Progress ITA           

Appeso al muro in cucina (in ogni cucina degli uffici OMA a Rotterdam come a New york, Hong Kong o Pechino) c'è un foglio firmato da Rem Koolhaas, più o meno con lo stesso messaggio da circa 15 anni. Nel 1998 Koolhaas decise di comunicare ai suoi collaboratori che, sebbene l'ingenuità di chi è concentrato al lavoro - più che al foglio su cui sta disegnando - porta a sottovalutare le tracce sulle quali cresce un'idea, era ormai tempo di raccogliere e catalogare responsabilmente tutto quanto si andava producendo, senza buttare via nulla. Chi se non Rotor poteva comprendere, e gestire, mole e significato del "non buttare via nulla"?  ... continua

                

OMA/Progress EN

Hanging on the wall in the kitchen of any OMA office (Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong or Beijing) is a piece of paper signed by Rem Koolhaas. For about the last 15 years, it has carried more or less the same message. In 1998, Koolhaas decided to inform his collaborators that, even if that the ingenuity of those who focus on their work—more than on the paper they were drawing on—leads to underestimating the genesis of the idea, it was time to start collecting and cataloging—responsibly—everything that was being produced in the office without throwing anything away. Who, but Rotor, could understand and manage the quantities and meanings of "not throwing anything away?" ...Continue